The fan translation subculture has always fascinated me. Dedicated members of a community, working together to provide translations for anime and manga that are unlikely to see export, or even believing that they can do better than "official" distributors.

Some of their efforts are exceptional. Other times…not so much. Chew. Some are accurate to the source material; others spice it up, or go full-on gag sub.

And I think that there is potential for an SCP idea here. One in particular that I've had is that of a fansub/scanlation group, who lace their work with cognitohazards and uploads them onto file-sharing and streaming sites, and the effects would depend on the work translated.

Superficially, this reminds me of SCP-2163 in terms of base effects (but on a much smaller scale).

You may want to consider if there is any common point for all these cognitohazards. What do they do? Are they meant to be there? Or are they simply an unintended side-effect caused by the fansubbers? Do they intentionally do it? Do they have the choice to not infect the subs with cognitohazards?

I'm not really sold on the use of cognitohazards in the fansubs. It's just… kind of obvious? You might want to go for something that happens to fansubbers/scanlators, or something anomalous that they might use to do their job.

"Fansubbers fuck shit up for because" feels like it would be underusing the subculture you're working off of here — the anomaly should draw on the actual acts and culture around fan translation, and potentially even affect it in turn.

Seeing as this is about translation, a potential point of exploration could be what some such works are being translated into. As in, maybe a sub-section of the translation subculture is dedicated to ensuring good-quality/colourful translations into some eldritchian mode of communication. Cognitohazardous effects could be the result of the consumption of this content by mere mortals.

Thank you all for your thoughts; they're very much appreciated. I'm thinking about writing up a few different versions of the idea, each one taking your individual points and thoughts into consideration.